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SUMMARY:Geoffrey Kiorpes\, piano
DESCRIPTION:Download Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\nJoin Our Email List\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Geoffrey Kiorpes is a native of Greensboro\, NC. He completed high school and college at the NC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem\, as a student of Clifton Matthews\, Marian Hahn and Robert McDonald. After relocating to New York City\, Kiorpes completed his Master’s and DMA at the Manhattan School of Music with Ruth Laredo and Jeff Cohen.  \n\n\n\nKiorpes enjoys a busy career as an educator\, accompanist\, and musical director. In 2016\, Kiorpes co-founded the New York City Charter School of the Arts\, a middle school in lower Manhattan\, where he serves as Arts Director and piano teacher. His students have given recitals in New York City and have received top scores at the NYSSMA festival at NYU. Over 40% of the 2022 graduating class were accepted to audition-based NYC high schools of the arts. Dr. Kiorpes served on the faculty of the Bronx Preparatory Charter School from 2002 to 2014\, as Artistic Director and piano teacher. His students received numerous awards and scholarships and performed at the state music convention and in music education classes at NYU. In 2013\, his students were featured in a benefit at Steinway Hall.   \n\n\n\nIn 2006\, Kiorpes gave his New York solo piano debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall as the recipient of the Artists International Award. Dr. Kiorpes’ concerto appearances include the Raleigh Symphony\, the Durham Symphony\, and the North Carolina School of the Arts Orchestra under conductor Otto Werner-Mueller. Kiorpes has spent summers teaching at Skidmore College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His numerous Broadway and popular credits include serving as keyboardist for the Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters\, musical director/keyboards for ‘In The Heights’ and ‘Les Mis’ in the Bronx\, and arranger/pianist for the hit Off-Broadway productions of Always\, Patsy Cline and The Heat is On. He has also served as music director for Broadway performers Kaye Ballard and Miss Maggie Moore\, and has appeared as pianist for Tony Award winning actress Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza)\, Jackie Hoffman\, and Montego Glover. A sought-after collaborator\, Mr. Kiorpes has served as accompanist for the Empire City Men’s Chorus\, and has accompanied the Boys Choir of Harlem and the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus. He gave a live performance of Phillip Glass’ Academy Award-nominated score for the motion picture The Hours at the film’s New York City premiere at the Metropolitan Club\, and has appeared with opera singer Stephanie Blythe and the Avalon String Quartet. He has presented solo recitals at Ithaca College\, St. Peter’s Church in Manhattan\, and UNC Greensboro\, and accompanied the National Youth Choir in Carnegie Hall.   \n\n\n\nIn 2023\, Dr. Kiorpes returned to the recital stage\, presenting works of African American composers. Two of the recitals were at institutions where the composers had been in residency\, (Bennett College/Nathaniel Dett and Rutgers/George Walker)\, with the third being presented as a benefit for CSA. In 2024\, Kiorpes returned with a second recital\, featuring 6 African American composers. 2025 brings the release of his first professional recording\, entitled Black Composers\, featuring works of Nathaniel Dett\, Roger Dickerson\, Adolphus Hailstork and John Wesley Work\, III. In addition\, Kiorpes is extremely excited to perform an evening of Dett’s piano works at Lane College\, in Jackson\, Tennessee\, where Dett had his first residency from 1908-1911. 
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/geoffrey-kiorpes-piano/
LOCATION:Organ Hall\, 100 McIver St\, Greensboro\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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SUMMARY:Symphonic Band
DESCRIPTION:Program\n\n\n\nJonathan Caldwell\, conductorSteven Stusek\, saxophonePatty Saunders\, graduate conductor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMcCUNE Spiral \n\n\n\nFLAGELLO Love and Nature \n\n\n\nYOUNG Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble \n\n\n\nPERSICHETTI Symphony No. 6 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDownload Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe importance of philanthropy has never been greater. Please consider a gift to the School of Music to support our mission and ensure the future of music at UNCG. \n\n\n\n\nJoin Our Email List\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/live/4wLn8ZgIWfY?feature=share\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Soloist\n\n\n\n\nSteven Stusek\, saxophone\, is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, where he is a member of the Eastwind Quintette d’Anches and the Red Clay Saxophone Quartet. Originally from Oshkosh\, Wisconsin\, he received his Bachelor’s degree in saxophone performance from Indiana University. Before beginning a Master’s degree in saxophone and chamber music at Arizona State University\, Steve spent a year in Paris studying at the Paris Conservatory (Conservatoire Nationale Superior de Musique de Paris) and the Conservatoire de le Région de Paris\, where he was awarded the Prix d’Or à l’Unanimité in Saxophone Performance. After living in the Netherlands for almost eight years he returned to Indiana University and was awarded a DMA in Saxophone in 2001. He has served on the faculties of Ball State University\, Middlebury College\, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He has been on the UNCG faculty since 1999. As a soloist\, Steve has appeared with the Eastern Music Festival and more recently with the University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble as part of the North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial conference. He has been the principal saxophonist for the Eastern Music Festival and the Greensboro Symphony for the past ten years. In 2000\, he won the prestigious Dutch Chamber Music Competition as part of the saxophone-accordion duo 2Track with accordion virtuoso Otine van Erp. Together they have performed throughout the Netherlands\, the US and on Dutch radio. Steve teamed up with pianist Inara Zandmane and saxophonist Susan Fancher to produce the critically acclaimed recording Louder than Words – music for two saxophones and piano. Steve’s teachers have included Eugene Rousseau\, Joseph Wytko\, David Baker\, Larry Teal\, Daniel Deffayet\, Jean-Yves Formeau\, and Leroy Wolter. Steve is the Past-President of the North American Saxophone Alliance. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the UNCG Bands\nThe renowned UNCG Bands are dedicated to the performance\, study\, and cultivation of wind band music of the highest quality\, and are a serious and distinctive medium of musical expression. The UNCG Bands are considered to be among the very finest collegiate band programs in America based upon our active profile of excellence in our performances\, recordings\, tours and convention performances. \n\n\n\nThrough exemplary practices in organization\, training\, and presentation\, the UNCG Bands provide exceptional experiences for our members\, sharing outstanding performances throughout the year and enhancing the institutional spirit and character of UNCG. \n\n\n\nThe UNCG Bands seek to support music education in the state of North Carolina and in our region by providing leadership and sponsorship to secondary school band programs and other organizations.
URL:https://vpa.uncg.edu/single-event/symphonic-band-7/
LOCATION:UNCG Auditorium\, 408 Tate Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27412\, United States
CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,School of Music
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